My Running Log

Ran on the treadmill. Actually felt pretty good with little soreness. 7 miles at 8 minute pace average.

I felt great again this morning after a good night's sleep. I ran 8 miles in an hour and then cooled down for a few minutes. That was faster than I planned to run. I'm calling it a sort of tempo run. I have felt better than expected after the race. So maybe I didn't push hard enough. :) I think a big part of it is that the weather has energized me.

By the way, I always weigh myself before running in the morning. This time I also weighed myself after and found that I had lost 3 pounds of water weight. That's crazy. But I had a sopping wet t-shirt to prove it. :)

I was in class this morning, and it was a little slow-paced, so I figured out a workout plan for the next 11 weeks before my 10K. I'll continue running 5 days a week, will do two easy days, a tempo workout, a speed workout, and a hill workout. I need to build my speed and hill strength. And I also chose to make it really flexible so that if I don't feel excited to run I can take it easier. Hopefully that way I'll keep motivated.

Congrats to all those who did so well at Boston!

Ran 7.5 miles on the treadmill. Most of it was at 7:30 pace.

I did a hill workout on the treadmill. I want to train myself to keep a fast tempo on hills, so I upped the speed to 7:30 pace and lowered the incline to 5. And I did the "Hill" workout rather than the "Random Hill" workout. I don't think the "Hill" workout is as difficult, but the faster pace gave me a really good workout. My theory is that the hills help you to increase your stride length when running on flat but more importantly gives you a great cardio workout.

Boy, I've had four great workouts this week already. Feels great to be in shape. Now I get to rest for 48 hours.

Relaxed..

I'm in Green River, WY today, so I guess it was altitude training. I think it's about 6100 ft. I ran down to the local high school track and did my first track workout of the year. It was a bit windy but not too bad. And it was probably in the 40's or low 50's. I ran 12x200m.

1 - 41 seconds

2 - 37

3 - 35

4 - 34

5 - 32.5

6 - 32.5

7 - 37

8 - 35

9 - 34

10 - 34

11 - 37

12 - 32.1

Somehow on the last one I was able to kick it back into gear. A big part of this workout was to figure out where I am speedwise. I was hoping I could run these faster than this.  It was difficult aerobically. Afterward, I ran several miles of cooldown so I could reach 10 miles for the day. I think it gives me 40+ for the week, which is awesome for me right now.